Folding bed



(No Model.)

J. A. SIMPSON.

FOLDING BED.

No. 452,483. Patented May 19, 1891.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JOHN A. SIMPSON, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,483, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed December 12, 1890. Serial No. 374,482. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN A. SIMPSON, of Kansas Oity,Wyandotte county, Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in folding beds; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invenlion, showing its general construction. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional View showing its several parts and the relation they sustain to each other. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on perspective of the head-board of the bed, showing the head-board and its attachment to the head of the bed. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of thelifting-springs, also atlange through which the wrist passes on which the bed is pivoted to the upright to the outside casing of the bed.

My object in the construction of this folding bed is to provide a cheap, durable, and

convenient folding bed, and by substituting hoisting-springs to take the place of weights it greatly diminishes the weight of the bed and renders it much more convenient and easy to move from place to place. By taking an ordinary bed-frame and spring and using two sides in connection with coiled hoistingspring a folded bed can be constructed that will be durable and strong.

The uprights of my bed, it will be observed, are made of two boards of sufficient dimensions with a neat finish or cornice around its upper portion, and three or fourhorizontal slats from three to six inches in width across to secure the back completes the casing or upright sides for the bed.

a a are the upright sides.

76 are two rings through which a curtainrod K is suspended.

C is a spring which catches over the foot portion of the bed when it is folded, which holds it in a folded position.

d is a horizontal slat secured about midway of the uprights, to which a spring D is secured. This spring, it will be observed,when

a is the cornice.

the bed is unfolded engages the head-board .by dropping in notch 11', which prevents the P is a coiled spring. (Seen more clearly at Fig. 3.)

'm are perpendicularly projecting slats which are rigidly secured to the back of the bed, extending beyond the'inner edges of the uprights about two inches, thus forming a bearing for the head-board as it moves up and down.

f is the pivotal wrist.

b is a cross-piece rigidly secured to each side of the uprights, and hinged midway is the stretcher If. This stretcheris hinged also at its opposite end to the cross-piece rigidly secured to the legs b so that when the bed is lowered the stretcher causes the legs to open out. When the bed is folded, said stretcher causes the legs to pass back in a folded position.

I) is a bed-spring.

b is a slat secured to the legs.

0 is a pivot on which the legs are hinged.

o is a small block in the front of the legs.

g is a rod hinged on the one side of the bed, passing through a loop at the opposite side to hold the bedding in position when the bed is folded.

g is a pliable hinge-strap which secures the stretcher to the bed-rail.

.g is a loop made of the same material, secured to the opposite side, so that when the bedding is placed in position the strip is pressed across the bed and the end is inserted through the loop.

b is the foot-board.

b is the pliable hinge of leather or rubber, which holds the stretcher in position.

I am aware that there is a folding bed made with two stretchers for a similar purpose; but I find that one answers the purpose equally as well and is much cheaper. I therefore claim protection in this advantage.

E is a hoisting-spring, which, it will be observed, can be made of any suitable spring metal, with one extended end formed in a loop through which a screw is inserted, holding it in position to the bed-rail, (seen at e,) the opposite end being coiled around the body f of the spool F, which is mounted on the pivoting wrist-pin f of the bed. It will be seen that the extended end after the coil is formed passes through flange f with its end 6' turned at right angles, so that when the spring is located in its proper position with the bed the right-angle turn is forced in the upright sides, which rigidly secures it to said side. It can then be clearly seen that when the opposite end is secured to the bed-rail about one-third of the entire length it will greatly assist, if it will not wholly raise the bed in its folded position when spring D is relaxed from the head-board.

f is an opening through the flange, through which the pivotal wrist passes. b is a slat secured across the back of the upper portion of the upright.

llaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a folding bed, the combinatio11,with the vertical pieces (I, having guides on upon their rear portion, of bed-rails pivoted in the said pieces a, a recessed head-board, a spring-hinge connecting the said head-board and bed-rails and adapted to force the latter rearward against the said guides, and a spring-catch having a curved lower end adapted to pass in front of the said head-board and to engage the recess therein when the bed-rails are lowered, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. SIMPSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. G. THORPE, II. E. PRICE. 

